Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-08
aolRNTlFlc TRUTH
REGARDING the Functions OF
an Important Organ.
Of Which the Public Knows hut HIT
tle-Worthy Careful Consideration

OF which the Public Knows But Lit
tle-.Worthy Careful Consideration.
To the Editor of the Scientific American:
VIII you permit US to make sao"n 70 ~
public the facts We hare learned oar'ng u. =
past 8 gears, concerning disorders Q u
human kidneys and the organs Wh'cn as
eased kidneys so easily break u 1o'
are conducting a scientific paper ana ar
unprsjudiced erceptin faror Of IRurH. 1
e useless to say no medical Journd! Q
"Code" standing would admit these toct
for very curious reasons.
II. II. WARNER e. CO.,
Proprietors O" Warner's Safe Cure"
That we may emphasize and clearl.
explain the relation t re kidneys sustain
to the general health, and how much Il
dependent upon them, we propose, met
aphorically speaking, to take one from
the human body, place in the wash
bowl before us. and examine 1t Tor the
public benefit.
You will imagine that we have before
us a body shaped like a bean, smooth
and glistening, about four inches in
length, two in width and n in thick.
ness. 1t ordinarily weighs in the adult
male about five ounces, but is somewhat
lighter in the female. A small organ
you say. But understand, the body OF
the average size man contains about
ten quarts of blood, Of ~hich erery drop
passes through these filters or se~ers, as
they may be called, many times It day,
as often as the heart, making a complete
revolution in three minutes. From the
blood they separate the waste material,
working away steadily night and day
sleeping or waking, tireless as the heart
itself, and fully of as much Importance ;
removing impurities from sixty-five gal
Ions of blood each hour, or about forty
nine barrels each day, or 9,125 hogs
heads a year! What a wonder that the
kidneys can last any length OF time
under this prodigious strain, treated and
neglected as they are?
We slice this delicate organ open
lengthwise with our knife and will rough
ly describe its interior:
We find it to be of a reddish-brown
color, soft and easily torn. filled with
hundreds of little tubes, short and
thread-like, starting from the arteries,
ending in a little tuft about midway from
the outside opening of q cavity Of con-
siderable size, which is called the pelvis,
or, roughly speaking, a sack, which is
for the purpose of holding the water to
further undergo publication before it
passes down from here into the u~reters,
and so on to the outside of the body.
These little tubes are the filters which
do their work automatically, and right
here is where the disease of the kidney first
Doing the vast amount OF. work which
they are Obliged to, from the slightest
in our habits, from cold,
from high living, from stimulants or a
thousand and one other causes which
occur every day, they become somewhat
weakened in their nerve force.
What is the result? Congestion or
stoppage of the current of blood in the
small blood vessels surrounding them,
which become blocked; these delicate
are irritated inflammation
is set up, then pus is formed, which col
lects in the pelvis or sac; the tubes are
at first partially. and soon are totally,
unable to do their work. The pelvic
goes on %distending with this corrup-
ton, pressing upon the blood vessels.
All this time, remember, the blood,
which is entering the kidneys to be fill
tered, is passing through this terrible, dis
pus, for it cannot take any other
Stop and think of it for a moment.
Do you realize the Importance, nay the
vital necessity, Of having the kidneys in
Can you expect when they are
diseased or o%bstructed, no matter how
little, that you al have pure blood and
Escape disease? 1t would be just as rea-
'onablc TO expect, if a pest house were
vet across Broadway and countless thou
sands were compelled to 60 through it's
residential doors, and escape from coDta-
zion and disease, as for one to expect
he blood to escape pollution when con-
running through a diseased kid
ley.
Now, what is the result? Why, that
he blood takes up and deposits this
poison as it sweeps along into every
'rgan, into every inch of muscle, tissue,
iesh and bone, from your head to your
Get. And whenever, from hereditary
or otherwise, some part of the
)ody is weaker than another, d countless
rain OF diseases is established, such as
in weak lungs, dyspepsia,
vhere there is az delicate stomach
nervousness, insanity, paralysis or heart
[isease in those who have weak nerves.
The heart mu soon feel the effects Of the
as 1t requires pure b1ood to keep IL In
light action. 1t increases its stroke in
lumber and force to compensate for the
latural stimulus wanting, in it's en-
to crowd the impure blood
Trough theis obstruction, causing pain,
or an out-of-breath feeling.
Unnatural as this forced labor is, the
leart must O fai:er, becoming weaker
nd weaker until one day it suddenlv
and death from apparent "heart
.isease" IL the verdict.
But the medical profession, learned
nd dignifled, call these diseases by high
ounding names, treat them alone, and
atients die, for the arteries are corryiao
death 10 the affected parts, constantly
dding fuel brought from these suppurat- |
1g, pus-laden kidneys which herein our /
are very p%utrefaction itself.
which should have been cured first.
But this is not all the kidneys have to.
O.; for you must remember that each !
uult 'aheS dDouC seven pounds Of |
every twenty-four hours to
1pply the waste OF the body which is
onstantlv going on, Il waste equal to.
quantity taken. This. too, the
have to separate from the blood |
iih all other decomposing matter. /
But you say, MY kidneys are all
ght. | have no pain i'll the back
man! People die of kidney
iss ase OF so bad u character that the
Igans are rotten, and yet they have
ever there had q pain or an ache,
Why? Because the disease begins,
We have shown. in the interior OF the
where there are tew ne,rc OF
cling to convey the sensation OF pain.
ny this is So we may never know.
When You consider their great work,
re deiicacy OF their structure, the ease
it'll which they are dersn1ed, can YOU
ondcr at the l~ll-llea,th OF our men and
omen? Health and long lie cannot be
y ected when SO vital an organ is
npaired. No wonder some writer's
" We are degenerating. Don't You see
he great, the extreme importance Of
this machinery in working
RIDER? Could the finest engine do even
fractional mart NJ thio u,orl- ,;+ho,,